2010-big-ten-basketball Stories - The Only Colors
Detour
The road to a Big Ten title now runs straight through West Lafeyette. Foolproof two-step plan for Michigan State to win at least a share of the Big Ten title: 1) Win at least 2 of 3 remaining home gam...
The Big Ten Race in Tabular Form
Simplified View of the World The conference has now split pretty clearly into a top five (MSU, Ohio St., Purdue, Wisconsin, Illinois) and a bottom six (everybody else). The first group of teams ...
Who's been dying to see those PORPAG numbers?
[This is not so much a real post as a blockquote/bulletpoint/numbers dump. This is what you get for showing an interest in my rigged-up statistical inventions. Appropriate given that Spara...
Your Big Ten Pre-Conference Season All-Conference Team*
*Yes, I know that sounds a lot like an oxymoron.I'm a couple days late on this, but long-time readers know how much I love putting together all-conference teams (in the tradition of the old All-Wonk T...
A Scatterplot-Based Big Ten Conference Season Preview
Scatterplot: Technical stuff: Offensive efficiency is points scored per 100 possessions. Defensive efficiency is points allowed per 100 possessions. I’m using Kenpom’s "adjusted" e...
A premature (but not excessively premature) 2009-2010 Big Ten conference basketball preview
OR "How did I let all this football talk distract me from producing basketball scatter plots?" Now that I've thrown my blogging lot in with a couple football nuts, my old "basketball's WAY better than...
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